The Pantry Refresh
One of the pillars of creating and maintaining healthy habits is making sure that your environment is aligned with your goals. For example, if your goal is to eat an apple a day but you don’t have any apples at home, your environment is not helping you achieve your goal.
A powerful way to support your energy, gut health, and balance inflammation is through your diet and lifestyle habits and so today I want to share 5 recommendations for your pantry that will have a powerful cumulative impact on your health.
Now, as a functional nutritionist, I don’t just help people to eat healthier: I help them create healthier lifestyles. The only way to create a healthier lifestyle long-term is through aligning your mindset with your actions. Simply going through the motions of a healthier lifestyle doesn’t stick. It needs to be meaningfully connected.
Keep this question in mind as we go through the pantry refresh: why is my health a top priority for me? Arbitrarily making changes to your pantry isn’t where the magic happens. It’s definitely a great step towards aligning your environment to support your health…but you will get so much more out of any healthy action if you are presencing WHY the result of that action matters to you.
5 Pantry Swaps That Matter
| Instead of this… | Try this! | Why it’s a win: |
| Refined Vegetable Oils (Corn/Soy) | Olive Oil, Avocado Oil, Coconut Oil or Ghee | Better healthy fats; higher smoke point for cooking. |
| Table Salt | Celtic or Himalayan Salt | Contains essential trace minerals your body needs. |
| Refined White Sugar | Raw Honey, Stevia, Monk Fruit | Provides more glucose stability which supports energy & inflammation balance. |
| Processed Snacks | Nuts, seeds, olives, roasted chickpeas, Lupini beans, jerky, nori, and small amounts of Siete or Simply Mills crackers/snacks | Healthy fats, fiber, more nutrients, healthier ingredients. |
| White Pasta | Chickpea, Lentil, or Konjac Pasta | Boosts your fiber and protein intake for better satiety. |
When your environment is set up for success, your habits follow more naturally. Small improvements add up significantly over time! Don’t take your health for granted: without it, nothing else matters. Keeping this in mind as you make lifestyle changes will go a long way in making them stick.
If you’re ready to feel great and create health habits that stick, I would love to connect with you!
I have a few spots left for a complimentary Unstoppable Health Discovery Session this month. Schedule with me here.
Wishing you unstoppable health,~Rebecca
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